Toe-calk swage



kUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT H. DENNIS, OF SEYMOUR, IOWA.

i ToE-CALK swAeE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letterslatent No. 265,767, dated October 10, 1882. Application filed April i7, 188:?. (No model.)

r[o all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that I, R. H. DENNIS, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at Seymour, in the county of Wayne and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsl in Toe-Galli Swages, of which the following is a specilication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.V

My invention has relationto toe-calk swages for blacksmiths; and theobject ofthe invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and efficient tool for smiths, whereby they can readily and ecoa calk as made with the aid of my device.

A is the base, and is provided on its upper side with achannel, B, havingone straight side, a, and the corners of the opposite side, C, are beveled at c c'. A projection or teat, O', ex-

. tends into the channel B, and a recess or orince, D, extends downward on the upper side of the base A.

In operation the device is used as follows: A piece of bar-iron, E, of suitable size and length,is heated in the forge, making it hotfor a distance of four to eight inches on one end. The heated end is thenlplaced in the channel, or rather over it, and on the projection C. In this position the bar is held by the left hand, and, with the hammer in the right hand, the bar is struck with a drawing motion, so as to draw it in the direction of the projection C', and at the same time force the bar down into the channel. 'lhis treatment raises a teat, e,

Vof the orilice D.

on the bar, which is then raised out of the channel and pushed along a proper distance and treated as before, so as to make another teat on it, and so on untl the heated part of the bar has been used up. After this is accomplished, and while the bar is still hot, the first-made teat is inserted downward into the orifice D on the l'ace ot' the swage and the bar struck a straight vertical blow with the hammer, driving the teat c down into the oriice D,thus making the teat the desired width 'lhe rest of the teats are simi larly treated, and all of them are thus rapidly made of a uniform width. The bar is then placed on the hardy and one of the calks cut off', then the next one, and so on until all are severed from the bar.

With this device the operation is so rapidly Vperformed that in making four or live toe-calks it is only necessary to'heat the bar once, as the whole operation is so quickly accomplished.

In using my device it is not absolutely necessary that the channel B have the straight side, and l have found in practice that it may be dispensed with and effective work done.

rFhe corners c c' are beveled to prevent the iron bar from being clipped while the teat is being' formed.

Having thus fully described my invention and the mannerof using the same, what l claim as new and useful, and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States, is-

The herein-described tool for hlacksmiths, consisting of the base A, channel B, straight side a, and opposite side C, having projection C', and beveled corners c c', and recess D, as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of' two witnesses.

V ROBERT H. DENNIS.

Witnesses:

H. H. KENT, J. R. BRADLEY. 

